Have to agree here. Having a game cheeper in one country than another just doesn't make sense. I'm Canadian and have certainly seen prices for apps rise drastically over the past while. However, there have also been brief periods where our dollar was higher than the US dollar. Apple is an American company so it makes sense that prices are based on the US economy.
Honestly, I think we've been somewhat spoiled when it comes to app prices. Making a living as an appdeveloper isn't easy. Software like OCR or GPS software which does equivalent things on other platforms has been stupendously expensive when compare to even the highest app prices. It doesn't surpriise me that some apps like Ulysses are going to a subscription model. I love that app and am a happy subscriber understanding that in order to keep development steady and safe, you need a steady income. Appps which don't have inapp purchases or subscriptions have to survive on waves of income based on one-time sales. They have to focus on features for each new update which might possibly attract new good reviews and customers rather than develop what they have more systematically. I'm working on a guide for blind owners of iOS devices. I plan to release that guide for free, but it's taken me a long time to do it. I'll have spent three years on this when it's hopefully ready in March. It's over 140000 words long now and will probably be over 200000 words when it's done. Unlike most app developers I've heard about, I'm in a situation where I can afford to spend my time and effort doing this. Most of them really struggle financially even after they release their apps. It also costs money to have an app in the app store as well as time and effort to maintain it after it's out there. Do you realise Apple takes a 30% cut of all app sales? Because I'm giving my gide away, I don't have those kind of continued costs to worry about. On the flip side, I don't have any sort of budget for advertising and distributing it. I'm on social assistance and absolutely get how hard it can be to afford some of the more useful apps. However, similar to books, I understand just enough of what developers have to go through to have some real sympathy for them. If I had my way, I'd be able to travel to new owners of these devices and help them get an understanding of how to operate them and the scope of what's possible with them. However, that would be well beyond what my finances could stand. Writing the guide and recording the lectures are what is possible within my circumstances. Developers also have other stresses in life and hard financial realities to deal with. I think most people who create things wish they could do more to make them spread and be more affordable than is usually possible. On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 12:40 PM Herv <bmkreco...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's been like that ever since apps were invented. > It starts in USD, and then apple converts into your currency depending on > your location. > Sucks because the US dollar is quite high right now, but nothing to cry > about. > Developers aren't going to make an app's price based on your location. > Do you know how many times they'd have to relist the app? > Be happy we have it at all. > I remember the accessibility we had 10 years ago, so I'm thankful for what > I have. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 13, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Gerardo Corripio <gera1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > As some of you guys might already know, I’m the person responsible for > the “Ciberaprendiendo Tutorials and Tech” pocast which airs Tuesays at > http://www.eiberoamerica.com, and whenever I find an app that I > personally feel would benefit the blind (especially those here in Latin > America and other Spanish-speaking blind folks) I send an EMail to the devs > of these aps, with generally interest in me featuring their apps in the > before-mentioned podcast, which has an average listenership of between > 800-1600 monthly, depending on the apps or services featured. However I’ve > encountered two or 3 blindness devs whose attitudes leave to be desired. > It’s as if ey all seem to think that we blind folks live in the same > economic situation, in which usd$1.99 independent of where we are, is the > same; here in Mexico, for instance, a USD$2 app or game would be almost > Mxn$40. Yes I know I could buy these games. As long as I have the funds for > these, but or more-expensive aps? 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